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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HLS grad here.  Law school admissions are mostly numbers driven.  If your GPA and LSAT are at or above the school's 75th percentile, you will probably get in regardless of where you went to undergrad.

When I was at HLS, about a third of the class had attended Ivies for undergrad, a third had gone to other well known schools (including top state schools like Berkeley and Michigan), and a third or perhaps a bit less had attended other schools.  That's mostly because people who go to top undergrads are disproportionately likely to get high LSAT scores.  HLS sometimes offers a bit of leeway (especially on GPA) for people who went to a few tippy-top undergrads, but a 3.9/175 from a random undergrad will almost always get in over a 3.5/170 from Stanford.

YLS is different because it has a very small class and professors play an important role in admissions (and, as you might expect, some YLS professors are snobs).  But for every school from HLS on down numbers are king. [/quote]

https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/

https://www.lsac.org/sites/default/files/media/lsat-percentiles-2020-2023_accessible.pdf

LSAT	  25%ile: 171	50%ile: 174	 75%ile: 176	
GPA    25%ile: 3.84	50%ile: 3.93      75%ile: 3.99

171 LSAT is top 3%
3.8 GPA is is top 75% at Harvard undergrad!  https://features.thecrimson.com/2023/senior-survey/academics/

Fun bonus note:

"[In 2023] Nearly 20% of respondents who said they had a rounded GPA of 4.0 admitted to having cheated in an academic context, compared to just 10% in 2022. "
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